Automated Translation Machines: Challenges and a Proposed Solution

Automated translation (MT) tools have become an urgent need in a multilingual environment. Although there are any available tools on the market, unfortunately, a robust MT tool is still a dream. This purpose of this paper is to discuss challenging issues in MT tool developments, the state of art of he MT tools and propose a framework for a semantic-based translation. The focus of this paper is English to Arabic translation MT.